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Thanks for posting... I find this stuff fascinating.

As a heads-up, I just finished a truly absorbing book - Spirit of 74, detailing what went on at the micro-level, at ground zero in Boston, and MA. A great deal of perspective is gained with this excellent book - eg, how the MA patriots essentially self-governed, outside of British-controlled Boston. The King's magistrates, judges, and so on, were made to recant their offices. Gov Gage, if he had his druthers, would have went to the hotbed of Worcester area, instead of Concord to de-arm the patriots.

Indeed, look what I found when doing my family tree, My Grandmothers Maiden name was DeWitt...

Charles De Witt was one of the most prominent men of Ulster County in the political events which preceded and accompanied the war of the Revolution. From 1768 to 1775 he was a member of the Colonial Assembly,and as a member of the last legislative body which sat under royal authority, was one of the nine resolute and patriotic men who voted to approve of proceedings of the Continental Congress, then recently organized in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Provincial Convention of April, 1775, and of the third and fourth Provincial Congresses, where he was associated with John Jay, William Duer, and others on the committee for detecting and defeating conspiracies, etc. On December 21, 1775, he was commissioned colonel of a regiment of minute men. When the State Government was organized, Colonel De Witt was made a member of the committee to draft a Constitution ; and from 1775 to 1785 he sat in the State Assembly. A sketch of Colonel De Witt, from which the above facts are mainly taken, may be found in the Ulster County Historical Collections. My ancestor helped craft and defend The Constitution... Wow

Indeed, look what I found when doing my family tree, My Grandmothers Maiden name was DeWitt...

Charles De Witt was one of the most prominent men of Ulster County in the political events which preceded and accompanied the war of the Revolution. From 1768 to 1775 he was a member of the Colonial Assembly,and as a member of the last legislative body which sat under royal authority, was one of the nine resolute and patriotic men who voted to approve of proceedings of the Continental Congress, then recently organized in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Provincial Convention of April, 1775, and of the third and fourth Provincial Congresses, where he was associated with John Jay, William Duer, and others on the committee for detecting and defeating conspiracies, etc. On December 21, 1775, he was commissioned colonel of a regiment of minute men. When the State Government was organized, Colonel De Witt was made a member of the committee to draft a Constitution ; and from 1775 to 1785 he sat in the State Assembly. A sketch of Colonel De Witt, from which the above facts are mainly taken, may be found in the Ulster County Historical Collections. My ancestor helped craft and defend The Constitution... Wow